Services Held Sunday for Virgil Homer Lawson
Virgil Homer Lawson, 24 year old Crosbyton veteran with Alaskan service, was killed almost instantly about 1 a.m. Saturday monring, when his car left the highway and struck parked car belonging to a Ralls man. The accident occurred about two miles west of Crosbyton.
Lawson was pronounced dead upon arrival at Crosbyton Clinic Hospital.
Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist church, with Rev. Carl Grissom officiating. Burial was in Crosbyton cemetery under direction of King Funeral Home.
Highway patrolmen said Lawson's 1953 Buick apparently went out of control and struck a 1940 Dodge, belonging to Tom Wesley Odom of Ralls, which was parked about eight feet off the north side of the highway. Both cars were badly damaged. No one was in the parked car, which had been left because of a flat tire, and Lawson was the only occupant of his car.
The impact of the crash knocked the parked Dodge back on the highway, investigators said.
Lawson, a life-long resident of Crosbyton, apparently was killed instantly. He was taken to the hospital in a King Funeral Home ambulance.
He had been discharged from the armed services in January, after being on duty in Alaska. He graduated from Crosbyton High school in 1947, and had established an irrigation well repair business since returning to Crosbyton.
Survivors include his paents, Mr. and Mrs. Ewing Lawson, of Crosbyton; two brothers, Campdon of Lorenzo, and Ewing, Jr., of Fort Worth three sisters, Mrs. Jack Mayes of the East Plains; Mrs. Davis Bishop of Shallowater, and Mrs. Robert Crow, San Diego, Calif.
Pallbearers were Frank Hash, Jack Hash, Billy Simpson, Don Carter Nickson, Troy Lemley, Terry Edwards, Jack Pierce and Eugene Pierce.
The Crosbyton Review, June 6, 1953
Submitted by Patsy Crow
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